LibertyAndTruth
Liberty is Truth
This is a short bio of roughly 10 pages that moves through the general points of my life. The first paragraph is an AI summary of the full bio.
AI Summary.
Orion Simerl is an independent philosopher whose work emerges from direct confrontation with the realities most theories attempt to abstract away—poverty, incarceration, informal economies, homelessness, and systemic indifference. After decades of lived instability and conflict, he turned toward a sustained effort to understand why human beings persistently produce conditions that undermine their own well-being. This led to the development of original frameworks in cognition (Assignment, Sequencing, and Comparison) and ethics (Objective Morality), alongside applied legislative proposals designed to materially improve economic opportunity rather than merely describe injustice. His work challenges the dominance of belief over evidence, arguing that self-deception—not scarcity or complexity—is the primary constraint on human progress. Operating outside institutional systems and without traditional academic support, Simerl continues to write, publish, and advocate for ideas he believes are necessary to correct what he sees as fundamentally flawed social and intellectual foundations.
Bio
I’m a 43 year old man who was born to low income parents. I spent the first 8 years of my life with my Mom, the next 6 years with my dad. My mom worked service jobs and was assisted by her boyfriends. My dad was a welder who injured his back, requiring us to live off of AFDC sometimes supplemented by his mother for several years. He attended community college and obtained an associates degree and various certifications in IT, primarily networking. I lived with him until I was about 14.5 years old, and although his income improved for the final year or two I lived with him as a teen, household income was still well below the median. To his credit, his income improved after that, and he was able to buy a house and afford adequate entertainment himself. I stayed with him intermittently after that on a few occasions, getting out of jail or prison, and during a period when things were rough with my daughter’s mother Holly.
I was first incarcerated at 14, and I served roughly 6 years in juvenile and adult facilities both on the county and state level. Convicted of 2 felony charges, substantial battery and escape, and various other less serious charges, misdemeanor battery, resisting, bail jumping, etc. My behavior during this period was largely a product of maintaining well being through consistency with standards and assertion of dominance. (1) I was violent from about 6 years old until about 26 with a brief resumption of frequent conflict when I was about 32 or 33, largely stemming from the deterioration of circumstances that exposed me to frequent provocation. Today my values are different because my understanding is different. Enforcement of respect is understood as an effort to control, which I understand to be morally wrong, because the human constant is desire, and therefore all people can do as they please so long as the exercise of any individual’s liberty doesn’t interfere with the liberty of others, and therefore the use of force is only right when it is used to prevent or neutralize objective imposition. More to it than that, but that is the general idea that causes the cost of violence outside prevention or neutralization of imposition to generally not be worth it emotionally. In addition to whatever empathetic cost (2) there may be in knowing that I’ve harmed someone, there are negative feelings through self worth reductions in having done something wrong. Prior to developing this understanding, from about the ages of 24 to 29 I began taking steps to avoid situations where conflict could occur, and this was largely motivated by consequence, where I didn’t want to go back to jail or prison.
1: (Explanation of Referenced Standards: Standards representing valued ideas and acting consistently with standards causes a person to see themself as something they like which improves self worth, and this adjustment produces or maintains positive feelings that contribute to well being. Reverse motivation is also true, where violent behavior may be necessitated to avoid the feelings that come from inconsistency with those standards. Appearances of consistency or inconsistency with group standards can also influence self worth through an individual’s perception of how others perceive him, which also has the potential to produce violent behavior, when standards are not being a bitch, or not appearing to be someone who anyone can do whatever they want to. Whatever those standards are individually, a person who has limited opportunities to have the time, and acquire the money and know how to do what they want to do, will rely more on self worth to maintain well being and may subconsciously perceive their environment in a way that produces opportunities for objectives that allow them to assert those standards to feel good about themselves. Dominance, if it isn’t understood as morally wrong, is perceived as positive performance or accomplishment, which improves self worth and contributes to well being in addition to whatever was gained in the act of dominance.)
2: (Empathetic Cost: Vicarious experience in imagining the harm the other person experienced, and reductions in self worth (performance) for having produced that result(harm))
I sold drugs with varying levels of success from about 16 to 30 years old, supporting myself, my daughter, and her mother purely through that activity from about 27 to 30 years old, whereas prior to that period expenses were shared or primarily supported through my daughter’s mother’s income, and my income was supplemental. At about the age of 30 I had questions about why I was as I was, and why the world is as it is? 3 decades of life and everywhere is varying degrees of misery and bullshit, why?
In my pursuit of answers, I discovered many of the general ideas I had about the world were false. When your general assumptions about life collapse through the acceptance of contradictory facts, new general ideas have to be established. The easiest way to put it is, when things are not the way you thought they were, they can be any way. There was a period where I put a lot of things together the wrong way, and had to learn myself out of a lot of things.
Suffice it to say, my condition and my circumstances required me to leave Wisconsin. I went to Los Angeles in 2014 and I rented a room in Panorama City. I worked and attended activist groups and political discussion groups. I learned early on that the activist groups are concerned about the cause, the promotion, the benefit, and the social recognition that comes from having participated in some act of resistance, or the length of time they’ve been in a union. What they are not concerned with is a solution based on an accurate explanation of the problem. People can just wait for you to finish talking and move onto something else when they don’t have a rebuttal.
After a few months I found myself in a situation where my income was roughly equal to my expenses and I didn’t have any time, and there was nothing worthwhile going on with any of the groups I attended. I wanted time to study, think, and work on material. I purchased a sleeping bag and packed essential items into a back pack. I spent the next few months typically sleeping outside store fronts, and holding a sign on medians and off ramps to get money. I traveled often by way of ride share up the West Coast studying, thinking, and working out ideas and material.
After a few months I returned to Wisconsin to visit my daughter Ava. I stayed for a few months and left with a van I was gifted through repair. Holly was the caretaker of a man named Arnie who was a friend of the family on my mom’s side. He had a van that he said he was going to junk but if I could fix it I could have it.
5 months earlier when I was traveling along the West Coast I discovered there was demand for ride shares from the bay area along the 101 north to Arcata/Eureka. In 2015 there were trimigrants, often foreigners, typically european, who would go work on grow operations where they were paid by the pound to trim marijuana, and many of them used ride sharing to get from the bay area north. Buses were limited, you’re not going to rent a car because it’s often a one way trip, where they will be at the farm for the next few weeks or months doing nothing but trimming. I went to the bay area as an opportunity to generate income through the van by offering rides up and down the 101 while working on material.
This sustained me for about 3 to 6 months before the van broke down in Daly City, CA, which is a small city that borders San Francisco. I applied for benefits, showered at homeless resource centers, ate at the many places providing free meals, utilized the library and interacted with the homeless community. I worked on material for a few months then got a job at a moving company, where I became a foreman after two weeks and typically worked 40 to 60 hours per week. I did this for a few months until I was able to save enough for a car. During this period I did still have contact with my daughter, sent her money, and bought her a ps4 for Christmas. I’m not bragging, but anytime I had an income I sent my daughter money. I mention this fact because discussing the struggles I faced after I stopped selling drugs may cause the reader to believe that I wasn’t supporting my daughter, and that was rarely true. Within that same vein, the presumption of detriment to my daughter through my absence, cannot be considered without knowing the potential detriment of my presence at that time.
After purchasing the car and saving some money I returned to Wisconsin. I visited with Ava and stayed roughly 6 months, working with a company that did foundation repair. Unproductive period, worked, spent time with my daughter, and spent a lot of time with friends who I had grown up with.
I talked to a friend who invited me to come down to Colorado Springs, and I needed to leave Wisconsin for various reasons that are beyond the scope of this summary. Last I heard from him he had a successful carpet and vent cleaning business and the idea was that I would come down there and help him out. Without getting into the details, his situation was different than I expected and I eventually went to Denver and resumed living out of my car and working on material.
I was supposed to have a multi-month job rehabbing a property in Florida. I went to Florida probably 3 or so weeks before the job was supposed to start because there was an opportunity to transport a puppy from Colorado to Florida that would cover my expenses. Unfortunately my engine blew but the car was still drivable, it just wouldn’t rev over 2000 rpms. I could get it to 70 but I needed help from the topography to get enough speed for the gears to shift. I called the person who the job was through and he told me he was injured and it would be postponed indefinitely. I had about $250 I made from transporting the puppy and a car that could break down at any moment. I knew in Denver there were day labor services. I junked my car for I think $225 and I bought a greyhound ticket back to Denver because I knew there was an opportunity for income.
Some nights I slept on the streets, other nights I was able to find people who would rent a spot to sleep for $15 to $20 a night through craigslist. I worked at the day labor services as well as craigslist jobs and eventually rented a trailer. A guy was staying with his girlfriend and had a camper trailer on a lot that he rented me. After a few months, the owner wanted to start charging me for propane which wasn’t in our initial agreement.. I had about $600, and I had the opportunity to buy what appeared to be a reliable car. I was given an ultimatum to give him $100 for propane to stay in the trailer, or to buy this car, I couldn’t do both. I bought the car because the car is a means to improve income opportunities, and the trailer, or shelter for that matter is a means to comfort. Somewhere in the neighborhood of a few months from leaving Denver I was back to where I started before leaving.
I worked primarily through craigslist, which led me to a company that was looking for someone to drive a box truck. I went on one trip as a driver, then I was a foreman, and for a little while I was 50/50 with the owner on expenses and profits on the jobs I did. I saved about $6000, definitely could have saved more and it seemed like the owner was sabotaging my trips, having me do deliveries that didn’t make sense for me and never seeming able to book the jobs I was asking him to book from brokers. It was the end of November 2018 and I decided I would go to Florida where it would be warm for the winter and I imagined I could resume working on and promoting my material, and begin organizing to accomplish legislative goals.
I had less than 3 grams of marijuana, 4 10mg thc gummies, and 1 pipe with marijuana residue. I was pulled over by Florida Highway Patrol and was charged with 2 felonies and 4 misdemeanors. The gummies are considered concentrates so that was a felony, he charged me with maintaining a public nuisance structure for drug activity, claiming my car was a drug house because the above mentioned items were found in my car, Misdemeanor possession of marijuana weighed in the container that added 12 grams to the weight, and then charged me with 3 counts of paraphernalia, for the pipe, and the container the gummies and marijuana was in. It required most of the money I had to bond out and get my car out of the tow lot. It was nearly a year ordeal to resolve the case but I was satisfied with the outcome, felonies dropped, plead guilty to 3 misdemeanors and served 15 days in jail.
While I was on bond I stayed in Florida until February 2019. At which time the work I was doing (in home assembler of Amazon products) was slow. I was working on material and trying to create a defense for these charges, and it was very difficult to do while living out of my car in a place that even in the winter can be uncomfortably warm and humid, as well as other factors. Holly invited me to stay with her and Ava while I was fighting these charges, and I accepted her invitation.
I stayed with Holly and Ava until about November of 2020. I enjoyed being around Ava, and it was during this period that I first discovered Assignment Sequencing, and Comparison, but my general frustration, disappointment, and other circumstantial factors, created some acrimony at times within the household.
The word crazy is used to describe someone people do not understand, and it is valid when the subject of the word doesn’t make sense. When the subject does make sense, it means those who think he’s crazy really just are not interested enough to understand. I don’t say that in reference to Holly and Ava, but I’d been living that reality for more than 5 years with everyone else I’ve known and encountered. I’d been through hell the last 6 years, and couldn’t attract attention through fact, logic, and benefit. I worked to accumulate some resources, go to Florida with those resources and that cost me those resources and a year of my life traveling from Milwaukee (West Allis) to Florida. I discover why I cannot reach people through fact, logic, and individual interest, and there’s no outlet for that discovery either. Income opportunities were limited, and the risk of everything was enhanced from past warrants I had that I’ve since taken care of. I was 37 at the time, still very ambitious in the desire to facilitate the righting of human wrongs, and capable, but I had sporadic income, potentially going to jail whenever I left the house, no outlet for ideas, discoveries, or intellectual talents, I understood the subconscious mechanisms that prevented my success, and I was trapped. For Holly and Ava, it was difficult for them to see someone they care about as discontent as I was, and the only thing I could do to improve both of our situations was to untrap myself.
It was November so I needed to go somewhere warm. My car was no longer drivable, high mileage and several trips to Florida. I junked the car, packed a back pack, had about $800, and I purchased a plane ticket to San Diego. Based on my experience in San Francisco I figured there would be plenty of resources for a motivated individual. There was not that in San Diego and I was quickly exhausted. I was looking for people renting rooms and was also looking at surrounding locations. I found a woman in Las Vegas who was willing to rent me a room I could afford and I found about a $35 plane ticket to Vegas from San Diego. I spent two months in Vegas, I was able to find enough work to buy a car from a tow lot auction. I left Vegas intending to go to Phoenix based largely on seeing more work for better pay in Phoenix compared to Vegas.
I saw an ad in Austin looking for people to participate in a documentary about political and social points of view that are marginalized. I responded to the ad and the producer invited me to participate. I went to Austin, in a car with a loose timing chain to participate in the documentary. I talked for longer than an hour, but both at the time, and especially in hindsight I don’t think I performed very well. I tried to get a copy of the footage from the guy making the film but he wasn’t able to get it to me, and I don’t think he ever finished it. At the time it seemed like a good opportunity based on where I was at in life (living out of my car in Phoenix versus Austin) and what I wanted to do: (earn a living through the creation of my material and organizing to achieve quality of life improving legislation).
Upon purchasing the car I discovered that I needed a water pump, but I wasn’t familiar enough with the car to understand how rough it was running. Before I left Vegas I changed the water pump, oil, spark plugs, and air filter. In Austin I discovered that the timing chain was bad, but I didn’t have the tools, money, or a location to fix it. There were times when it would crank and not start. Sometimes I would put the car in neutral and roll it forward or roll it back to slightly change the position of the engine and then it would start. Whether moving the car had anything to do with it I don’t know, could just have been the amount of attempts, but I theorized that if the engine were leaning slightly forward or back that it may influence starting with a bad timing chain (stretched, loose). May have just been a close door elevator button in the sense that moving the car made me feel like I was doing something to produce the desired outcome. The point being is I didn’t have a lot of time in this car and I knew it.
I found a job that was supposed to last two weeks in Dallas with Premier Hospitality llc, operated by a man named Mark Crush who does furniture, fixture, and equipment installation on hotels. I purchased the tools and parts to change my timing chain, and changed it by a friend who I knew from Wisconsin who was living in Plano. I worked with Premier Hospitality llc until September of 2021, but it was work that spanned several jobs and states, with some gaps in between, which allowed me time to see my daughter. My plan was to save about $15,000 and use that money to promote ideas, material, and organization.
In September 2021 we were working on a Hyatt (house/place) in Allentown, PA. I worked something like 16 out of the last 18 days and had two days off consecutively. One of my favorite comedians was doing a show in Connecticut and I attended the show. During the show there was a disruptive couple sitting a few seats down from me. At the conclusion of the show I let them know they were pieces of shit for negatively impacting everyone’s experience. This led to the exchange of words, I was grabbed and punched, and proceeded to grab and punch the person who punched me. I hit him twice in the face, and he grabbed me with his other hand. I went to flip him over my hip but noticed he was unconscious. I tried to set him gently on the ground pulling to stop his momentum and this caused him to hit his head on that tile or laminate over the concrete floor. There was a loud thud, and his arms went to his side perpendicular to his body.
I was completely within the scope of self defense according to Connecticut state law, but if he died it could be an ordeal that I didn’t want to go through at that moment. I quit the job with about $5500, based on the possibility that he died, and the probability that if he did, I would be tracked to that job because tickets had assigned seating, surveillance footage of my car, and I was talking with the party seated to the right of me and told them I was working on a hotel in Allentown, PA. Had he died they’d have known his seat, my seat, and the seat of those next to me which they would suspect are people who know me because who the fuck goes to a show by themself? LOL. Then they’d have learned that they didn’t know me, but did talk to me, and I told them I was working on a hotel in Allentown, PA. How many hotels were being built in Allentown, PA? The answer is few enough to find out pretty quickly which one I’m working at with minimal effort.
I returned to Texas, rented a room, and began organizing my material into books and incorporated them into my website. Printed out flyers, tried to talk to people and hand out flyers outside of grocery stores in fort worth among other places. I also placed flyers on cars.
I ended up abandoning the room and living out of my car. I drove for GoPuff until I was given the wrong bag from the distributor. Following this period I was largely surviving on poker tournaments on Bovada. I think I made about $3000 over two months, cashing out $200 to $500 at a time, so it was still a stressful period financially. I traveled across the country, leaving Texas for Phoenix and then Alabama and points in between where I distributed flyers, talked with people, and was trying to promote material through internet solicitation.
By about February or March of 2022 I was in the St. Louis area. I stayed until about April 2022 when Mark from Premier asked if I wanted to do a job in Del Rio, TX. I left St. Louis about April for Dallas initially believing I could find work there until the job in Del Rio started which I was initially told would be toward the end of April. The job was postponed but we eventually started a job in May or June in Dallas, and would be working a few weeks in Dallas followed by a few weeks in Del Rio, and doing both jobs at once. I stayed until November, where I saved about $12,000 over that period, and things were getting funny towards the end of my service.
I decided that in order to attract people’s attention I needed to lead with political goals and organization. I applied and received a tax id for The Organization for Popular Legislation and registered the name as a doing business as in Florida using an address I purchased for the business that forwarded the mail. I purchased OPLNOW.com and paid a guy I found through a website $1000 to create the website according to my specifications. The website featured the political framework and goals, had each legislative proposal on the site and allowed for people to sign pledges in support of the legislation. There were also supporter packages consisting of access to books, bumper stickers, teeshirts, membership cards, among other things.
Half the people (Democrats or Republicans) in this country are going to vote one way or the other in every election, with a marginal amount maybe changing depending on their circumstances and how much the deterioration of their circumstances are believed to be the responsibility of their party. Another small portion of people (independent voters) will vote one way or the other based on something someone said, or some other superficial difference. In many districts the population is voting all red or all blue. In some districts, the two groups of puppets are relatively even and in these districts, elections for house seats are contested by hundreds to 15,000 votes. OPL aimed to create a voter bloc in these contested districts who recognized that OPL legislation meant more to their individual interests than any difference between democrats and republicans. OPL would be able to swing elections and probably be able to decide which party controlled the house. Whichever party agreed to pass a piece of OPL legislation would gain control of the house. If both parties agreed to pass OPL legislation we wouldn’t vote. If one agrees we vote for that party. If neither agreed, we’d just keep flipping whoever the incumbent is, and eventually, an industry that supports one party much more than the other would influence the party to pass OPL legislation so they can control the house to advance or protect their interests in federal public policy. I’m not promoting a cause, an idea, or purely a moral argument or grievance, and I’m not merely presenting legislative proposals, but I am also providing a plan of how this legislation and other legislation that benefits popular interests can be achieved. If a relatively small contingent of people do this, we will have this.
I rented an extended stay hotel about an hour northwest of Chicago where I stayed for a month setting everything up and canvasing in the area. I was promoting the Round Up Service Charge Tax Credit Incentive. People who stand to make $5 to $10 more per hour for doing the same work they’re already doing should be interested in an idea to accomplish that. I went to gas stations, fast food locations, retail stores, and provided an oral summary of the program and organization, and left a summary of the program with the manager requesting that they share the hand out with their co-workers. Sometimes they would say things that revealed they didn’t understand shit I was saying. In addition to canvasing I tried contacting restaurant franchise owners and retail corporate headquarters, because the proposal benefits these businesses as well as benefits the employees. I also contacted political parties and academics.
After no acknowledgement working out of Elgin, IL, and not wanting to exhaust my funds on shelter I went to Las Vegas, and resumed my efforts there briefly. I went to Vegas because it was warm, it wasn’t the south (SC, GA, AL, MS, LA), and it wasn’t Texas or Phoenix. I won’t go into the explanation, but it suffices to say they were places I didn’t want to be at that time.
On my last day of canvassing in Vegas I was trying to figure it out. If someone tells you they have a plan to substantially improve your wages, at the very least people should have questions. If they saw it on their phone from one of their preferred people who say things that make them feel good, then perhaps they provide the attention, to provide the interest, to provide the understanding; and that understanding would allow them to recognize and act on their own best interests. They have no point of reference for what I’m telling them and they do not understand how things work, instead their understanding is associative, where what they hear signals associations with similar things they’ve heard, but they cannot organize the objects I’m providing to arrive at the idea and recognize how that idea advances their interests and the interests of others. In other cases they may see me, and something about my appearance signals to them that whatever I’m selling is harmful, and they’re just trying to give me what I want to get back to what they’re doing. Others who just want to get back to what they’re doing. No real interest or participation from people who stood to directly and substantially benefit from a proposal where the request was merely typing their name in a form as a pledge of support for the proposals.
While I was trying to multi-task, contacting businesses who may be interested in supporting the proposals, and contacting politicians, my credibility with these entities cannot be established without popular support. The support signatures were capital for the organization to gain the support of politicians and more importantly, the support and influence of industry.
I was surprised but not really surprised. I already knew that human beings cannot be communicated with. In an argument, they will stop arguing when they cannot overcome the point or get angry, change the subject, or shift the argument towards something about me, but just because they’re wrong doesn’t mean they will change their mind. It’s a zero sum gain because people choose what to believe not based on evidence and logic, but based on how something being true causes them to feel.
Just because I present something that serves the interests of all affected parties, doesn’t mean they will be interested in it, because it isn’t associated with anything they are already interested in, it’s not tied to something they like, so whatever it is, they don’t care about it, even if it means they will earn more money for the same work and produce a plethora of other benefits for unskilled workers and the public.
I had a few thousand dollars left and decided I’d drift and either something would be inspire me or I would eventually kill myself.
It’s a surprisingly difficult decision for me. Surprisingly because I live on a planet with people who are wrong about most of what they believe, largely tyrannical, who are governed by feelings they don’t understand produced by beliefs that are false, creating false perceptions of reality. They are not moved by fact and logic. A species who has chosen tyranny, chooses to be wrong, failing to understand that right is a matter of benefit not authority, and what happens on the planet is produced by people, systems, and causes, not magic. Existing among such a species, surrounded by deception facilitated by self deception, and having no means through which what is wrong can be corrected or improved, it would make sense to check out of this shit. Especially given the absoluteness of morality as a determiner of conscious motion, and the probability of ideal existence. Then it’s merely leaving a bad place for a good place.
It was a difficult decision for me first because I was concerned about how it would impact my daughter Ava. Second is the general absence of emotional pain because consistency with my standards means I feel good about myself and understand my circumstances well enough that I don’t feel bad for myself, I just accept what is. I recognize that my time here however long is relatively short, my circumstances are undesirable but not yet unbearable, and although unacknowledged, I have the keys for human social and intellectual evolution and understand the implications of this to existence. Yet I’m not compelled, I have no duty or responsibility to change the moral trajectory of this species, I just understand it is a unique opportunity and may benefit me and all other objectively moral beings if I endure. The other side of that is imagining when I die, my consciousness surviving death and I get made fun of by my daughter and others in that space for not saving myself the trouble and getting out of this hell sooner.
It’s basically like falling off a plateau onto a ledge. You cannot get off the ledge and if you jump off you’ll get everything you want. However, if you can somehow get off the ledge you’ll get everything you want in greater abundance. You don’t want to be on the ledge, but if you jump you may miss out on what you could have gained in the unlikely event you can get off of it.
March of 2023 I started drifting, eventually making my way to Indianapolis when it started to warm up a little bit. I was able to find work near there when my money began running out and I kept myself busy trying to survive. For a while I frequented the Indianapolis area, Cincinnati, Louisville, and then during the summer I made a few trips up to Michigan for work, and in the winter a few trips to Georgia, and the Carolinas for work. Also had other trips that took me through Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, among other places. In situations where I may have $100, there’s a trampoline assembly for $350, 500 miles away. If I’m down to $100 it means it’s been difficult for me to find work and I don’t know when my next opportunity to get money will be. If I schedule the job one day away, in a day, I’ll have $350, whereas if I don’t in a day I may have $80 and be consumed by stress.
Some time in 2023 to 2024 I finished the Supremacy of Bias after leaning into social media in an effort to share ideas and discoveries. About the spring of 2024 I was primarily in the St Louis area. Missouri still has a lot of manufacturing and warehouse work through apps and is also surrounded by rest areas, which makes it easy to find work and have a place to sleep or work on material and solicitation campaigns. Obviously none of the solicitation campaigns or new material produced any results or attracted any attention.
In the fall of 2024 I spent a month or two in the Kansas City area which had similar app work opportunities as St. Louis. Near the end of November of 24 I went to Texas, DFW area for the winter. I wasn’t there longer than a week before receiving information that my daughter Ava died. The how, the why, and my reaction are in the book Ava.
I returned to Wisconsin to have my last moments with her (life support no brain activity), helped her mom move, and I have remained in Wisconsin since then. Minus two trips where I left for a few days but that strategy didn’t make sense. I do hope I have the resources to leave Wisconsin soon. In the last year I wrote I Ava, and converted content from books into papers. I’ve at least had the opportunity to share these papers and some of my books on the Phil Archive, and I have 5 papers either being reviewed or considered at different journals. I should be optimistic with at least two papers in peer review, but even if I get the papers published I don’t know if that does anything for me?
My experience on this planet has been for the most part undesirable, due indirectly and directly to human beings’ propensity for self deception. They become emotionally attached to bullshit, and live lives trying to maintain and promote that bullshit, as their beliefs must remain intact to preserve self worth, to like what they like, and to do what they do. Directly in the refusal to acknowledge my material, and this is detrimental both in personal opportunity and development; because with acknowledgement things that are not understood are made apparent through arguments that reveal what isn’t understood.
This is a fucked up world, and more so for a majority of people in the world than in the United States, but also for a lot of people in the United States. As someone who exists in a space where things are fundamentally wrong, and understanding the causes, the only thing that makes sense is to make what is wrong right, because: a: the ceiling to my own quality of life is limited by the world that exists, systems must produce better results generally, and people need to be better. Imagine everything in your house is upside down and scattered all over the place, you wouldn’t be able to enjoy other things until you cleaned and organized your house. And b: because what I have the opportunity to do isn’t worth the effort especially in this environment. That is the basis for how self deception has directly produced hell, in that the promotion of right can only be accomplished through the conveyance of information, and people avoid, ignore, or reject information that challenges their beliefs, and their beliefs are false, and their beliefs produce the causes of undesirable results (public circumstances, inadequacy of opportunity for time, money, and know how). That is the indirect aspect of self deception, where generally what exists isn’t because some people are right, some people are wrong, and some people don’t care, it is that everybody is wrong, and they would rather be wrong because they don’t understand right, and the benefits inherent to right. One person can be right and everyone else can be wrong, so long as everyone doesn’t acknowledge what is right, and then controversy is restricted to opposing wrong perspectives.
There are no income opportunities available to me that will allow me to do what I want to do. I need to hire people first to learn the material, and then to assist with efforts to establish a learning center SALT (School for the Advancement of Liberty and Truth) and a PAC OPL (Organization for Popular Legislation). It’s evident that there are no income opportunities that will allow me to take this first step, because I have no income opportunities that would allow me to support myself beyond subsistence, and even subsistence would require a substantial amount of time, where I have neither the money to hire anyone, nor the time to direct them. I’ve spent time working, spending very little money and enduring recurring irritation over time and applied it to what would have been an effective campaign if people could objectively evaluate information. There were years of different efforts to different degrees, it isn’t like I tried and gave up. I gave up trying after two months of canvasing in two different states and realized people didn’t give a fuck about what I was saying and often didn’t understand what I was saying.
Someone without understanding or argument may claim I’m a person who blames other people for their problems, but in order for that to mean anything they’d have to show that other people have not done what they have done; otherwise people are responsible for my problems (self deception) and that is a fact of reality that cannot be claimed to be a product of tendency or character.
I’m hanging in here for a few unlikely possibilities.
1: In 2024 I filed an IRS whistleblower claim, demonstrating that an app has automated processes associated with a labor services provider, many people who use the app would be considered employees based on the criteria established in Real v. Driscoll Strawberry and Associates inc, and they are misclassifying their business as a market place as opposed to a labor services provider, and are consequently misclassifying those who use the app as independent contractors when they are actually employees of a company who earns money from the labor these people perform. They would owe about 7% on billions of dollars of unpaid payroll tax on wages paid to their users over several years. As the claimant, if the IRS could establish this in court, once they collect, I would receive 15 to 30 percent of the 7 percent they collect. This is a company that made over 90 million dollars in a year, which represents maybe 20% of the wages paid, where if a job pays $18 per hour they may get 2 dollars for each hour the person works on that job. To make 90 million in a year means 450 million was paid in wages. 7 years, probably an average of about 75 million per year in revenue, 375 million per year in wages, and 2.6 billion total in wages paid. IRS takes 7% is 183 million dollars, and 15 to 30% is 27.5 million dollars, or 55 million dollars. The company could settle, but any settlement would likely be more than adequate to finance my ambition. I requested a status and updated my address in fall of 2025, and received confirmation that the investigation was ongoing. From what I understand, if a claim has no merit there is typically a decision in about 90 days. I of course don’t know how well connected a company that has 90 million dollars per year in revenue and presumably little overhead is, or how changing administrations could impact IRS investigations. It’s a possibility that I need to see play out.
2: My core material, ASC and Objective Morality is validated through space, time, objects, consciousness, and the potentials that exist within those parameters. You cannot understand that and not recognize how it is foundational to human understanding, and foundational to understanding existence in its application to any space consisting of multiple consciousnesses, in any form. Of course there is the application of Objective Morality to the law, ideas for improving law, and improving opportunities through actual investment in the underclasses, as opposed to the funneling of public funds to private hands to provide goods and services for the underclasses. This is just to say, the second possibility is that people in the academic community understand it, and I sell enough books through my website, or something I’ve created gains enough attention to lead to investment. That is about the effort I’m willing to put in, given that all other efforts require more energy including frustration, but ultimately do not, and cannot produce any results.
To address the potential implication, I have no desire to be an active participant in any academic field. The goal is to situate my material in academia, some scholars will understand it, and those who understand it can write papers applying and defending it, and I will address controversy if needed.
I’ve considered making videos, but unfortunately, I don’t have the resources including the space to produce anything of satisfactory quality, and this is a people who cannot evaluate the content if the quality of the video is poor.
We’ll see what happens.